insolence

How To Use insolence In A Sentence

• Almost Kenny could see him chirking up into insolence and the pertness of a bird. Kenny
• And you may say he was: when he flogged his dvornik* (* Porter.) for insolence, and the fellow collapsed before the prescribed punishment was finished, they sent him to the local quack - and when he was better, gave him the remaining strokes. The Sky Writer
• “Thou art ill-advised, thou malapert boy,” replied the steward, “to speak to me in such fashion; but I shall inform my Lady of thine insolence.” The Abbot
• I'll make you suffer for this insolence.
• This attitude towards his superiors would be mere insolence if it did not have political overtones.
• _trissillables_, and others of _polisillables_ egally increasing and of diuers quantities, and sundry situations, as in this of our owne, made to daunt the insolence of a beautifull woman. The Arte of English Poesie
• But he went among them single-handed, his bearing being a delicious composite of humility, familiarity, sang-froid, and insolence. The Son of the Wolf
• As [the early 20th-century chef/philosopher Auguste] Escoffier explained more than a hundred years ago: cuisine like couture is one of these creative fields that involve exaggeration and insolence. French Master Chef Reinvents His Art
• These castles afford another evidence that the fictions of romantick chivalry had for their basis the real manners of the feudal times, when every Lord of a seignory lived in his hold lawless and unaccountable, with all the licentiousness and insolence of uncontested superiority and unprincipled power. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
• For this disorderly, wandering march, besides the drinking part of it, was accompanied with all the sportiveness and insolence of bacchanals, as much as if the god himself had been there to countenance and lead the procession. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans